Implanted medical device aims to lower blood pressure
...Bisognano and Sloand are conducting the trial with vascular surgeons Mark Davies, M.D., Ph.D., Jeffrey Rhodes, M.D., Cynthia Shortell, M.D., and Michael Singh M.D....Statin simvastatin linked to protection against endothelial dysfunction in diabetic rats
...n. Since most patients with diabetes die from some vascular complication, Medical College of Georgia researche...s, simvastatin also appeared to prevent or reverse vascular injury by vasoprotective means. In a well-established rat model of diabetes, simvastatin protected a...Exercise, stress management show physiological benefits for heart patients
...ascular risk in part through beneficial effects on vascular endothelial function," Blumenthal said. "This is a level of improvement is comparable to that achieved in drug trials. For that reason, these findings add additional support for the use of non-pharmaceutical approaches to treating patients with heart...ISHLT updates guidelines for heart and lung transplants
...s to transplant, such as age, diabetes, peripheral vascular disease, renal insufficiency and cancer history. "There are many issues to consider. A lot has changed just in the past few years," Mehra says. A primary example is that of the growing older population, and with it, a greater number of patients who...Tissue engineering experts discuss orthopaedics applications
...s to treat Alzheimer's, liver, heart, muscular and vascular diseases. Robert Nerem, Ph.D., director of the Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience at the Georgia Institute of Technology predicted that one day tissue engineering and regenerative medicine will result in a revolution in the ...Traditional risk factors best predictor of CVD death in kidney patients
...eath from heart disease, heart failure, peripheral vascular disease, and stroke. The Cardiovascular Health Study is a longitudinal study of traditional and emerging risk factors for death from cardiovascular diseases in over 5,800 men and women over the age of 65 in four U.S. communities: Forsyth County, NC...Exercise variety - not intensity - appears to reduce some Alzheimer's disease risk
...pes of dementia, including Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia. The association did not hold true for those who have the APOE-4 genotype. "These findings, taken together with recent findings from our colleagues at the University of Chicago studying physical activity and plaque buildup in the brains of ...Pessimism and depression increase dementia risk
... common forms of dementia are Alzheimer's disease, vascular dementia and Lewy body dementia. Although it's common to see personality changes such as pessimism, depression, agitation or withdrawal once a person develops dementia, the Mayo Clinic investigators believe that pessimism and depression are more lik...Study shows surprising decreased surgical infection risk after age 65
...ent), cardiothoracic procedures (2.3 percent), and vascular procedures (1.7 percent) having the highest rates Between ages 17 and 65 years, the infection rate increased for each decade of increasing age, peaked at ages 65 to 74, and then decreased for each subsequent decade. This "inverted V" pattern was also...The Cochrane Library newsletter, 2005, issue 2
... looked to see if memantine could help people with vascular dementia. Although it seemed to help reduce cognitive deterioration, the effect was not big enough to be apparent to the doctors treating the patients, and was possibly more short-lived than in Alzheimer's disease. In both diseases memantine was well...Some Alzheimer's patients can benefit from drug memantine
...for patients with mild to moderate Alzheimer's and vascular dementia, which occurs when brain cells are starved of oxygen by blocked or diseased blood vessels. However, these changes were not clinically significant, and it remains unknown whether there is a true benefit in mild to moderate cases, McShane and ...NIH awards funding to biotech firm for heart disease
...xisting therapies include drugs, gene therapy, and vascular interventions for relief of arterial obstructions....rt. In time, other targets will include peripheral vascular disease that disables people with diabetes, the prevention of stroke, and treatment of renal ischemi...Increased risk associated with combining carotid artery, coronary artery surgeries
...dures, the most likely of which is the severity of vascular disease among these patients. Other factors include unstable angina, myocardial infarction or arrhythmia, previous stroke, and the skill and experience of the surgeon. Although there has been an increase in the combined CEA-CABG procedure, the actual...Data suggest bypass surgery free of long-term brain effects
...ypass versus cognitive decline due to pre-existing vascular disease of the brain," said Selnes. "Just about everyone agrees that some patients do suffer cognitive decline after CABG, but almost nobody agrees on how serious this decline is, and how long it lasts." The authors find that the existing literature ...How medical research is taking care of your heart
...ing blood pressure, explaining the actions of many vascular relaxing drugs including Viagra. In the early 1970s, the endothelium, the thin layer of cells that lines blood and lymph vessels, was considered to be just an static layer covering the inner side of blood vessels. But, since then, major discoveries...Lipoprotein abnormalities found in severely obese children
...risk of coronary heart disease, stroke, peripheral vascular disease and type 2 diabetes. The study found no gender differences for lipoprotein variables....MDCT accurate for diagnosing coronary artery disease in patients with no to moderate calcification
...isualization of the coronary arteries and may mask vascular stenosis, but 16-MDCT has improved the visualization of coronary arteries so that those with no or moderate coronary calcification can be diagnosed accurately," said Martin Heuschmid, MD, lead author of the study. According to the researchers, coron...University of Kentucky researcher wins American Heart Association award
... open to new investigators in arterioscleroris and vascular biology. New investigators are defined as those who have been active in a research environment for no more than five years since completing a graduate degree. The award program seeks to recognize researchers, still in the formative stages of their ca...Molecular change occurring during brain tumor progression also evident in breast cancer
...nd that similar molecular changes happen in highly vascular and invasive tumors such as breast and brain cance...hat seeks to impede the development of the tumor's vascular network is one of the relatively new and promising approaches in the treatment of solid tumors. The ...Research suggests molecular approaches to brain tumor treatment
... protein called Fra-1 was effective in controlling vascular endothelial growth factor D, a factor that promotes the growth of new blood vessels in most malignant brain tumors. "This protein seems to be important in how tumors grow and how they may spread to healthy tissue," said Waldemar Debinski, M.D., Ph.D....